ClearPoint Neuro Announces Appointment of Mazin Sabra as Chief Operating Officer

SOLANA BEACH, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLPT) (the “Company”), a global therapy-enabling platform company providing navigation and delivery to the brain, today announced that Mazin Sabra will join the Company effective October 10th as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Sabra will report directly to Joe Burnett, ClearPoint Neuro’s Chief Executive Officer, and serve as a member of the Company’s senior leadership team.

“We are thrilled to have Mazin join our team and bring his valuable and relevant skill set into our organization,” commented Joe Burnett, President and CEO at ClearPoint Neuro. “Our pharma and device partners in many ways view ClearPoint as an essential vendor and part of their supply chain. They cannot get their drug or their therapy to target unless we perform at the highest levels. Mazin’s experience leading quality, procurement, and supply chain at massive organizations like Philips and Stryker should give our partners added confidence that we continue to invest in the skill sets they require to create state-of-the-art products that are supplied predictably and available globally.”

Mr. Sabra has served as Vice President of Supplier Quality Engineering for Philips since April 2021. In this role, he led a global team responsible for the quality performance of suppliers for a range of Philips’ portfolio from Class III medical devices to consumer products. Prior to this role, he held several positions at Philips since June 2016, including serving as the Vice President for Procurement Engineering for Philips’ Connected Care businesses, as well as Senior Director for Procurement Engineering for its Image Guided Therapy Devices business. In these roles Mr. Sabra was responsible for defining the business procurement strategy, supply risk management, design for excellence for product development, profitability, and growth. 

Prior to joining Philips, Mr. Sabra spent 11 years at Stryker Corporation, serving in several management level roles. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Director of Asia Strategic Sourcing for Stryker, based in Suzhou, China. In this role he was responsible for all Asia-based suppliers providing products to over 14 Stryker manufacturing sites globally, including all supplier activities for three Chinese manufacturing facilities and Stryker’s Global Technology Center in India. Mr. Sabra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from The University of Michigan.